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hilbert42yesterday at 6:41 PM1 replyview on HN

Heavens, that should be AT cut not XT. What on earth was I thinking of?

Some of you guys should have picked that up. ;-)


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hilbert42yesterday at 10:02 PM

Further to my unforgivable boo-boo. This article provides a pretty good introduction to the subject and there's a diagram of a quartz crystal at the beginning indicating the position of AT cuts in relation to the crystal and other cuts.

I've seen much more detailed diagrams of the crystal and cuts/cutting angles but I can't find one online. . Those precision diagrams are required by those who cut the quartz at the start of the manufacturing process.

https://xoprof.com/2023/09/unleashing-the-mystery-of-crystal...